Catherine MacIntoch "Kay" Carmichael (22 November 1925 – 26 December 2009) (née Rankin) was an influential figure in Scottish politics and an activist against nuclear submarines in Scotland.
At the age of 20 she joined the Independent Labour Party in Scotland.
[3] Her activism included "guerrilla raids" into Faslane Naval Base to plant flowers for which she was sentenced to two weeks in prison.
Whilst a member of the UK Government’s Supplementary Benefits Commission in the late 1970s she chose to live for a short while on benefits in the Lilybank area of Glasgow.
‘Lilybank:The Fourth World’ was widely resented by residents,[4] decried as ‘poverty porn’ by academics while being praised for its ‘realism’ by others.